Immediate Crisis Response

Carrying whatever possessions they can, women arrive in a steady trickle at a camp for Internally Displaced People (IDP) established next to a base of the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) near Jowhar. Heavy rains in Somalia, coupled with recent clashes between clans, has resulted in over 4,000 IDPs seeking shelter at the camp. Credit: Tobin Jones, UN Photo, November 2013

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Opened in December 2015, the Place of Memory is a UNDP-backed Government of Peru centre with an online research portal to help the nation deal with its open wounds, document the past and remember over 60,000 people who died or disappeared during the 1980-2000 conflicts.